A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X

S. P. Oakley

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A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X

Volume III: Book IX

S. P. Oakley

Description

Livy's ninth book, one of his finest and most interesting, begins with his celebrated account of the Roman disaster in the Caudine Forks and its aftermath and contains also the famous digression on Alexander and our longest account of the censorship of Appius Claudius Caecus. This new commentary, which is a sequel to those on Books VI-VIII published in 1997 and 1998, deals comprehensively with all aspects of Livy's work, including the literary structure of his narrative, the purpose of the digression on Alexander, the historical and topographical problems of the Samnite Wars, Roman politics in the age of Appius Claudius Caecus, the poetical and archaic language sometimes affected by Livy, and the numerous textual problems posed by the extant manuscripts.

A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X

Volume III: Book IX

S. P. Oakley

Author Information

S. P. Oakley is Professor of Latin, University of Reading.

A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X

Volume III: Book IX

S. P. Oakley

Reviews and Awards

"Oakley raises all of the essential literary issues, historical problems, and textual cruxes in his book, and magisterially addresses every question, large or small. Scholars will rightly turn to him as they study the Samnite Wars. Oakley's essays on the literary and historical backgrounds of central passages will define Livy studies in these respective fields. He has distilled an enormous amount of modern scholarship to reach his concise, informative, and well-argued entries on the individual lemmata. Comparisons can no longer be made to R. M. Ogilvie's great A Commentary on Livy, Books 1-5 (1965). Oakley's work has now equaled and, with the publication of the final volume on book 10, will exceed Ogilvie's in importance (in the best sense). Essential."--Choice